Politics & Wrestling

Two politicians popped up during the WWE Christmas Special for the Troops Saturday night on NBC, and I'm not talking about the Iron Sheik.

One was President Obama, taking time to wish soldiers and their families a good Christmas. The other was former WWE exec (and sometime performer) Linda McMahon, running for Chris Dodd's U.S. Senate seat, who bought an ad during the show her husband was putting on to talk about how bad things were in Washington and how she would help small businesses, just as she had once built her own.

And yet her business, with oiled fighters and hot divas, performing in some desert outpost for the troops, didn't seem so small at all.

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Roger Catlin is TV critic for the Hartford Courant and writes a daily column about what's on television called TV Eye. He is also on the board of the Television Critics Association. Before all of this, he was rock critic ... read more